“Historical justice always wins over historical injustice” - Georgian Justice Minister on victory against Russia in 2008 war case at ECHR
“Russia not only violated a number of international norms against the state of Georgia, but also against specific people, as well as their convention [European Convention on Human Rights] rights, [...] it is a violation of the right to life, torture and inhuman treatment”, the Minister emphasised in his comments to the media. Photo via Justice Ministry
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Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Friday hailed the victory of the country over Russia in a European Court of Human Rights case related to the 2008 war between the two states and stressed “historical justice always wins over historical injustice, no matter how much time passes”.
The decision, published earlier on Friday, which ordered the Russian Government to pay up to €130 million for the benefit of 24,000 Georgian citizens affected during the war, has been a “great success” on the path of Georgia’s de-occupation, Bregadze said, noting “sooner or later” Russia would have to fully compensate the damage it had caused to Georgian citizens.
Russia not only violated a number of international norms against the state of Georgia, but also against specific people, as well as their convention [European Convention on Human Rights] rights, [...] it is a violation of the right to life, torture and inhuman treatment”, the Minister emphasised in his comments to the media.
He also pointed out other cases that Georgia had won against Russia, including the 2020 decision, which ordered the country to pay a €10 million fine to Georgia for the illegal deportation of Georgian citizens back in 2006, and a “historic” win on the 2008 war case in January 2021, which confirmed that Russia had violated “several articles” of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians.
The Georgian Justice Ministry on Friday highlighted “another historic victory” of the country against Russia in a European Court of Human Rights case related to the 2008 war between the two states, after the ECHR ordered the Russian Government to pay up to €130 million for the benefit of 24,000 Georgian citizens affected during the war.
Georgia has won the 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court released its judgement earlier today which says that Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians. The court said that Russia is carrying out an effective control of Georgia’s Tskhinvali and Abkhazia regions and is responsible for the violation of human rights of Georgian citizens.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has given a Russia deadline of November 12, 2020 to pay a €10 million fine to Georgia for illegal deportation of Georgian citizens back in 2006, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia reported earlier today. If Russia still refuses to pay the compensation per the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in 2019, the council will adopt an interim resolution in December 2020 - the first step for the launching of procedures against Russia for shirking its responsibilities.
The International Criminal Court in Hague has issued arrest warrants against three de facto officials of Georgia's Russian-occupied breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, the Georgian Justice Ministry announced earlier today.
The Georgian foreign office on Monday highlighted a “serious threat to the security architecture” of the wider region and Europe posed by the 2008 intervention of Russia into Georgia, in comments over the 15th anniversary of the aggression that sparked that year’s war between the two countries.
Levan Ioseliani, the Public Defender of Georgia, on Monday urged the country’s authorities to “use all international mechanisms” and ensure further engagement of the international community to “intensify” pressure on Russia to protect the rights of the people living in Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, in his message on the 15th anniversary of the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday hailed “major changes and improvements” ensured by the current Government in the domestic penitentiary system over the past 10 years in comments at an international conference on the topic, hosted in Tbilisi for the first time.
Pawel Herczynski, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, on Wednesday said the Georgian Government had demonstrated “progress” and development of the domestic justice and probation system over the years.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Friday told the Parliament that Georgia had won all 3,300 cases filed at the European Court of Human Rights related to the 2008 war and Russia’s intervention into the country.
The Georgian Government’s “fruitful” cooperation with the United Nations was discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and Miguel de Serpa Soares, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel.
Matters related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and Li Junhua, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.